Roadmap July 2023 (Patreon)

Hey folks and welcome to a brand new roadmap update for Vanilla Expanded mods. I use these posts to let you know what we're working on and what our priorities are, as well as give you a quick peek into what the future of VE holds.

I'm very excited about the fact that we seem to be working through the planned content list at quite a reasonable pace. Can't really help ourselves, as the currently planned mods are all very exciting.

To give you a summary of what's happening right now:

We're still waiting for Vehicles framework to release in order to get Vanilla Vehicles Expanded out to you. As far as I know, since Cursed Crew update is getting released soon, Phil will work on the Framework after.

Vanilla Events Expanded - Caravan has 14 different events designed already, but it's nowhere near what I expect from the final release, so whenever I have the time, I design new events for it.

Vanilla Factions Expanded - Deserters is undergoing testing right now. So far the mod seems to work very well, with very little bugs. If all goes well, it might be released in July. After it's done, Legodude will work on Animat path which many of you have requested.

Sarg is taking a short break from Vanilla Races Expanded series after delivering the Highmates, and who can blame him. He is currently working on my new idea for a mod I bet everyone will love: Vanilla Plants Expanded - Mushrooms. The goal is to add plenty of new, unique ways to obtain certain resources in the dark caves of your tunneller bases.

After that's done, he will continue work on Vanilla Races Expanded - Lycanthrope which features an extremely tricky to code gene: morphing. This gene will allow a pawn of a specific xenotype to morph into a different xenotype. You will be able to have Baseliners morphing into Lycanthropes, but also Highmates morphing into Hussars etc.

I'm also still designing Vanilla Temperature Expanded which proves to be a very complex mod under the hood, so I'm trying to simplify it wherever I can for ease of usage.

Vanilla Furniture Expanded - Recycling is currently paused because we already have quite a few projects open.

That's it for this roadmap update. We're very excited about the future, and I want to once again give my appreciation to everyone who chooses to support us - be it on Patreon, but also by just spreading the word about our mods. Without you we would not be here, and it brings me great pleasure to drop cool mods on you and see how you react to them.

I will see you all soon with more development blogs, and potentially exciting surveys and polls!